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Retinol Side Effects
Health Encyclopedia: Vitamin A
Retinol; Carotenoids
Side Effects
If you don't get enough vitamin A, you are more susceptible to infectious diseases and vision problems.
If you get too muchvitamin A,you can becomesick. Large doses of vitamin A can also cause birth defects. Acute vitamin A poisoning usually occurs when an adult takes several hundred thousand IU. Symptoms of chronic vitamin A poisoning may occur in adults who regularly take more than 25,000 IU a day. Babies and children are ...
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Retinol Overdose?
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Wrinkle Treatment
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...carotenoid. Evidence now strongly suggests that when taken as a separate supplement it can have harmful effects.Lycopene. Lycopene is responsible for the red color in fruits and vegetables,... Read more »Ulcerative Colitis: Medications
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